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A short videopoem about loneliness when growing old. The narrative alludes to someone trying to find love, or at least any form of meaningful contact, on a match-up web platform.
The poem describes the desolated scenery of a scrapyard, a metaphor for the speaker life, while on the screen, curls of smoke slowly unfold and go.

  • Jean Paul Thomin
    Director
    Dust'n Tango, A Museum At Dawn
  • Video: Stock shot: Jeffrey Beach (Beachfront Productions)
    Director
  • Jean Paul Thomin
    Writer
    Dust'n Tango, A Museum At Dawn
  • Jean Paul Thomin
    Producer
    Dust'n Tango, A Museum At Dawn
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Un genre de jardin
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Video poetry
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 7 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 14, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    300 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Université de Montréal
Director Biography - Jean Paul Thomin, Video: Stock shot: Jeffrey Beach (Beachfront Productions)

Multimedia artist since 1984
Several French web fictions during the '90s.
An Electronic Movie At ISEA 95: The Museum At Dawn
An Interactive Poem: Black Moon in 1997 Award: Jury Award at the 1997 MIM
A Web Movie 1998-2000: Dust'nTango: 91 minutes / over a hundred video clips and 15 actors/characters evolving through three different virtual worlds
Award: International Press Award, FIFI 1999.

Since 2013: work in the interactive poetry and digital literature fiel, especially on an academic level.

Related Academic Grades:
2018: DESS Digital Publishing / Université de Montréal
2019: DESS Arts, reation & technology, Université de Montréal
2020: Individualized Master: Interactive Poetry (Arts, Creation & Technology), Université de Montréal

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Whatever I might have to say, the videopoems are there to say it.